On Friday, July 23, 2004, 3:41:13 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Friday, July 23, 2004 3:15 PM -0700 Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> FWIW Watching ports get installed under FreeBSD is similar to >> watching CPAN installations. Lots of fully automated updating of >> files and resolution of dependencies. Presumably Linux RPMs >> do likewise, but FreeBSD had it first, along with other goodies >> like the TCP stack.... :-) > RPM rebuilding is not automatic. To date I've only seen binary > distribution. A SRPM (source RPM) is provided in a sibling directory for > those who want to rebuild from source manually. But RPM is targeted more at > enterprise situations where you build once and then deploy on many machines. OK I heard that Linux had an automatic installer like FreeBSD ports, though I forgot what it was called. :-) Jeff C.
